Title
Unsupervised Learning of ALS Point Clouds for 3-D Terrain Scene Clustering
Abstract
Terrain scene clustering is a class of unsupervised methods for choosing suitable algorithms or parameters for airborne laser scanning (ALS) point cloud processing. Most existing point cloud clustering methods use hand-crafted features, such as viewpoint feature histogram (VFH), as the input of clustering algorithms. However, few studies on point cloud processing focused on terrain scene clustering via an unsupervised deep neural network. In the present study, we create a data set for terrain scene clustering in ALS point clouds. We also propose DPCC-Net, a deep point cloud clustering network via unsupervised deep learning that jointly learns the parameters of the network and the cluster task of extracted features. DPCC-Net iteratively groups the features extracted by the deep convolution neural network with the k-means algorithm and uses the clustering result as the pseudo label to update the parameters of the network. We apply the proposed DPCC-Net to unsupervised training on a large terrain scene data set. The clustering result of DPCC-Net outperforms those of other typical methods.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/LGRS.2020.3047096
IEEE GEOSCIENCE AND REMOTE SENSING LETTERS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Three-dimensional displays, Feature extraction, Convolution, Clustering algorithms, Unsupervised learning, Task analysis, Sparse matrices, Airborne laser scanning (ALS), clustering, point cloud, unsupervised learning
Journal
19
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1545-598X
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jinming Zhang130.71
Xiangyun Hu2798.87
Hengming Dai300.68